This monument memorializes a violent massacre where colonial police killed 50 striking dockworkers.

Built by Portuguese colonizers, the palace is now the seat of power for the independent nation.

An incredibly salty lake inside the crater of an extinct volcano.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The old ceramics factory on Boa Vista shows the power drifting sand has to destroy buildings.

The defense built to protect one of the last found pieces of land on Earth.

Unusual carved mural of “barefoot diva” Cesária Évora, icon of Cape Verdean morna music.

The last remnant of a controversial statue at Cape Town University.

A 19th-century relic of timekeeping.

It celebrates the four men from South Africa who have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

From atop a hill at the center of Cape Town, a cannon has been signalling the time since 1806.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

This granite mountain is the largest rock in Africa and the second-largest monolith in the world.

Brace yourself for the slowest, scariest, most spectacular drive, down the Drakensberg Escarpment.

This sandstone plateau once served as a stronghold for Lesotho's King Moshoeshoe I and his subjects.

Not only does this shop sell mokorotlo, the traditional hat of Lesotho, the building is shaped like one.

Take a step into the Cretaceous Period with these preserved dinosaur tracks.